Right To Reside At Marital Home For Working Woman Not Absolute: HC
The Morning Standard|October 23, 2024
THE Delhi High Court has recently held that a wife's right to reside in a shared household under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act) is not absolute, particularly when she is financially independent.
RUCHI MISHRA @ New Delhi
Right To Reside At Marital Home For Working Woman Not Absolute: HC

Justice Neena Bansal Krishna ruled that a wife may be evicted from her marital home if employed and not dependent on her in-laws for shelter, provided the eviction follows due legal process.

The court made this observation while hearing the case of a woman who holds an MBA, works at Accenture Solutions, and has been living in her husband's family home since their marriage. After marital discord, the husband and in-laws moved out, and the wife filed a domestic violence complaint, claiming she had been subjected to cruelty.

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